Don’t worry, though, there is no plan for the upcoming second film in the rebooted fuzzy puppets franchise to go all Life is Beautiful on us: as Segel heirs James Bobin and Nicholas Stoller — who directed and co-wrote the first film, respectively — have already declared, the follow-up is going to be a comedy caper, presumably in the mould of that other classic Muppet film. Every good caper needs a copper, though, and so Kermit and Co. will be pursued by the dogged, diabolical Christoph Waltz and his creepily cheery ruthlessness, both of which have signed on to play an Interpol agent in the new film.

Calling back to Waltz’s most famous character might be a tad bleak even for a franchise as willingly in-jokey as the Muppets, but you do have to admit Waltz’s disturbingly punctuated Austrian accent should give a deliciously evil twist to the phrase “maniacal laugh.”